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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world's first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time--a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.
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Series
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2008], �2008
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
When widower, John Meredith and his four children move to a new town, they quickly bond with Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley and Rilla Blythe. Despite their questionable reputation, they become close friends spending time at a place called, Rainbow Valley.
Anne and Gilbert Blythe are happily married with six children. Similar to their parents, Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley and Rilla are bright, kind and extremely perceptive. They soon meet a new...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
8) Sycamore Row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
10) Winter world
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This novel is described as 'The Martian meets Interstellar.' Earth is cooling when climate scientists expect it to get warmer. When probes are launched into space to discover why, they find something no one expected: a mysterious object floating in space that might provide the answer.
11) Ali Cross
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When his best friend Gabe is reported missing, Ali Cross sets out to find him, but he soon learns that being a kid sleuth is not easy and clues are not always what they seem.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 6 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm. + 1 AAA battery.
Language
English
Description
Baree, the son of a grey wolf and a black dog, was born in the vast Canadian wilderness. He learns about nature and his fellow animals by trial and error-fighting with owls and playing with beavers. Being alone in the wild, he desperately seeks to join a pack of wolves, but they see him as a dog, and he is driven away.If the wolves are treacherous, Baree soon learns that humans are worse. He is shot, beaten, and trapped, but he soon learns to take...
14) The great alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
16) Hamlet Novel
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
17) Catching fire
Author
Series
The Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
20) Someone to love
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still grieving three years after his fiancee's mysterious suicide, Jace Montgomery discovers a clue about her death that leads him to purchase an English fortress, where he encounters a headstrong ghost who died under similar circumstances.